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Resume Building

The document provides guidelines for building an effective resume, emphasizing the importance of brevity, organization, and customization for specific job applications. It outlines essential sections to include, such as personal information, education, experience, projects, skills, achievements, and positions of responsibility, while recommending the use of bullet points and third-person statements. Additionally, it offers tips for polishing the resume, reviewing it with peers, and ensuring accuracy in details.

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Resume Building

The document provides guidelines for building an effective resume, emphasizing the importance of brevity, organization, and customization for specific job applications. It outlines essential sections to include, such as personal information, education, experience, projects, skills, achievements, and positions of responsibility, while recommending the use of bullet points and third-person statements. Additionally, it offers tips for polishing the resume, reviewing it with peers, and ensuring accuracy in details.

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Resume Building

Team SPC
CDC IIT Bhubaneswar
WHY and WHAT?

● SELL YOURSELF
● One or two page summary of your education, skills, and experience.
● Keep the content brief and concise
● Appropriate language and formatting
● Don’t write paragraphs, use bullet points
● Use statements, not sentences; write in the THIRD person
● Prioritize best skills and achievements
THE 5 P’s

1. Painless
Easy to read, well organized; use bold to make things stand out and use same font type
throughout (Calibri 10 for description, 11 for headings), indent 2-3 levels only.
2. Perfect
Proofread for spelling and grammar, consistent with punctuation, no personal pronouns.
3. Page
One or two pages is best.
4. Paper
Use subtle color and pattern. LaTeX is highly preferable. Take templates from Overleaf.
5. Position
Specific to the position you are applying for, use keywords from job description.
Sections

1. Personal contact information

Name, email, phone, LinkedIn, Github, CC/CF profiles with hyperlinks.

2. Education

Board, degree, percentage, and year in reverse chronological order.


Sections

3. Experience (internships)

Company name, time, designation, work done (max 3 bullet points).


Sections

4. Projects

Name, time, work done (max 3 bullet points).


Sections
5. Skills

Tech stack, Non-Tech Stack

● Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, Java


● Software/tools: MATLAB, Github, OpenCV, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn
● Operating System: Windows, Linux
● Soft Skills : Strong leadership, Communication, and Adaptability skills.

6. Achievements

● Ranked in top X% in India among xx participants on Codeforces.


● Ranked x in Codechef programming contest out of xx global participants.
● Ranked x in xx hackathon with xxx participants from all over India.
Sections

7.Position of Responsibility (PORs)


Designation, time, role, impact info.

8. Others like extracurriculars, relevant courses/ lab work/ certifications


Steps to make a resume

1. Understand yourself

2. List and Pick

3. Arrange

4. Polish

5. Review
1. Understand yourself

Analyse your skill set. Bring out skills and impacts of every notable activity
you’ve done.
2. List and rank achievements

Make an exhaustive list of achievements, rank them by magnitude/relevance and group them section
wise
3. Arranging

Shortlisting is often done in a scan time of 10-20 seconds.

Create a good first impression:

● Place attention capturing items earlier

● Within a sentence, deliver impact in the first half


4. Polishing

The way you write


determines how
effectively your skills and
achievements are
conveyed to the reader.

Focus heavily on this


section.
Representation of information

FRAMEWORK - IMPACT word, What, How, Effect


5. Review

Getting the resume reviewed is necessary.

Seniors in the firm, friends, contacts in corporate, etc.

Be honest in the resume and be prepared with a few examples to validate


your claims.

Know your resume thoroughly; you should be able to speak at length about
any point in it.
Some tips

1. Customize resume by job profiles. Create multiple resumes for different


roles you are interested in.

2. Use proper nomenclature: Resume_nikhil_singh.pdf or Nikhil_singh.pdf


Avoid: New_Doc.pdf, <name>_DEShaw.pdf, Final_Software(2).pdf

3. Be accurate about the details on your resume (CGPA, rank, etc).


4. The fact that you don’t like your core branch cannot be the reason for
you to choose NON-CORE!

5. Build strong LinkedIn profile.


DO NOT LIE ON YOUR RESUME.
Please use the following link
to ask questions :
bit.ly/qna_cdc

THANK YOU!

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